GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - A former Florida man who admitted to using the Internet to find children to sexually abuse was sentenced to prison Tuesday for behavior the judge called “creepy’’ and “disgusting.’’

David Claire Riggs was arrested Sept. 1 as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected Internet child predators.

He was nabbed on South Division Avenue south of 44th Street in Kentwood after meeting with an undercover officer with the intent of buying children for sexual exploitation, according to investigators and court records.